Wolfgang Tillmans pictures from New World
Gallery 2
18 February – 7 August 2016

The exhibition is a presentation of works from the Turner Prize winning photographer’s series Neue Welt (New World) which were purchased for Glasgow Museums’ collection under the Art Fund International scheme (2007 -12).

Travelling beyond the artists’ beaten path, Wolfgang Tillmans pictures from New World questions how the world appears when viewed from outside one’s immediate vicinity. After spending the best part of a decade working on studio based abstract works, pictures from New World sees the artist returning to a more documentary style reminiscent of his output throughout nineties, this time however leaving (for the best part) his local haunts of London, Berlin and New York, instead heading to the Far East, Africa and South America.

Image Credit: Wolfgang Tillmans, Tag/Nacht, 2009 Courtesy Maureen Paley, London